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SLEEP in honey bees
Klein, B.A. and T.D. Seeley. 2011. Work or sleep? Honeybee foragers opportunistically
     nap during the day when forage is not available. Animal Behaviour. 82:77-83. [pdf]
     Science News
Klein, B.A., A. Klein, M.K. Wray, U.G. Mueller, and T.D. Seeley. 2010.
     Sleep deprivation impairs precision of waggle dance signaling in honey bees.
     Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 107:22705-22709. [pdf, poster jpeg]
     Science podcast,  NatureNews,   NewScientist,   Bedsdirect,  mKarim
Klein, B.A., K.M. Olzsowy, A. Klein, K.M. Saunders, and T.D. Seeley. 2008.
     Caste-dependent sleep of worker honey bees. Journal of Experimental
     Biology. 211:3028-3040. [pdf, poster jpeg]
Klein, B.A. and T.D. Seeley. 2007. Work schedules impact sleep schedules
     in foraging honey bees. SLEEP. 30:A38. [abstract pdf, poster jpeg, html]


SLEEP in paper wasps
Klein, B.A. 2003. Signatures of sleep in a paper wasp.
    SLEEP. 26:A115-A116. [pdf, poster jpeg, html]
Klein, B.A. 2003. Signatures of sleep in the paper wasp Polistes flavus.
     Master’s thesis, Univ. of Arizona. Tucson, AZ.


FAUX FROGS
Taylor, R.C., B.A. Klein, and M.J. Ryan. 2011. Inter-signal interaction
     and uncertain information in anuran multimodal signals. Current Zoology. 57:153-161. [pdf]
     Journal cover
Taylor, R.C., B.A. Klein, J. Stein, and M.J. Ryan. 2011. Multimodal signal variation
     in space and time: how important is matching a signal with its signaler?
     Journal of Experimental Biology. 214:815-820. [pdf]
     Journal cover
Taylor, R.C., B.A. Klein, J. Stein, and M.J. Ryan. 2008. Faux frogs:
     multimodal signalling and the value of robotics in animal behaviour.
     Animal Behaviour. 76:1089-1097. [pdf]
     NewScientist,  YouTube video

    
HITCHHIKING in leaf-cutter ants
Klein, B.A. 2005. The paradox of leaf-riding in tropical leaf-cutter ants.
     Entomological Society of America meetings. [abstract pdf, html]


SUBSOCIAL SPIDERS
Klein, B.A., T.C. Bukowski, and L. Avilés. 2005. Male residency and mating
     patterns in a subsocial spider. Journal of Arachnology. 33:703-710. [pdf]


OTHER science
Abbott, J.C. 2011. Illustrated by B.A. Klein. Damselflies of Texas. University of Texas Press.
     TexasScience
Wray, M.K., B.A. Klein, H.R. Mattila, and T.D. Seeley. 2008. Honeybees do
     not reject dances for 'implausible' locations: reconsidering the evidence
     for cognitive maps in insects. Animal Behaviour. 76:261-269. [pdf]
     NatureNews
Bernays, E.A. and B.A. Klein. 2002. Quantifying the symbiont contribution
     to essential amino acids in aphids: the importance of tryptophan for
     Uroleucon ambrosiae. Physiological Entomology. 27:275-284. [pdf]
Engel, M.S. and B.A. Klein. 1997. Neocorynurella, a new genus of
     Augochlorine bees from South America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae).
     Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 44:155-163. [pdf]

 
 
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